El gran teatro del mundo

Where is the great theater of the world headed? We can have the feeling that the many advances of humanity -technological, political, social, health...- have led us to a time in which living conditions are better than in any previous historical period. But is it really so? Or is the ocean liner of the world headed towards collapse? Have the ideals of the Enlightenment been exhausted? Has sustained growth brought us to a point of no return? Dark clouds send us warning signs that we are not on the right track: the climate crisis, the economic crisis, the rise of populism, pandemics, wars... At the beginning of the third millennium, perhaps we should rethink everything. This is what Philipp Blom does in this agile, erudite and astute journey through Europe's past and present to try to understand how we got to the current situation and what we must do to correct a system of values that will end up leading us to disaster if we don't act anymore.